don’t be afraid to be weak…. don’t be too proud to be strong….
Switching to the religious part of me 
Several months ago I saw this nice clip of Psalm 23 on Youtube and I thought it would be nice to post it in my weblog. Psalm 23 has been one of my favourite passages from the Bible for a long time and this clip did pretty fine in wrapping the passage in panoramic scenes with a beautiful song. I like the last verse: “for Your endless mercy follows me, Your goodness will lead me home….”.
Psalm 23 (or follow this link)
This posting is dedicated to the major events (especially the travelling part) during my 1-year stay in Trento, Italy, that haven’t been logged yet. Honestly, I’ve forgotten the details, so pictures may tell the stories better than my memory.
On September 17th 2008, the master theses defences (presentations) were held at the IRST building. And one of the Indonesian EuMI students (Ferry Irawan Tantono, my senior) got a 110 con lode (with distinction). Congratulations to him!
Trento – Congratulations to Ferry! (me, Tizar, Ferry, Ida, Yusi)
On October 12th 2008, I and Mu went to Bolzano for a day trip.
Bolzano – Me posing with a big pumpkin
On November 8th 2008, I, Alexis and Mu went ice-skating. Jeff and his wife, Jennifer, came along a bit later.
Trento – Ice-skating (Alexis, Mu, me)
On November 15th and 16th 2008, I and Mu went to Torino for a 2-day trip. We visited several spots, the most interesting one was the Egyptian museum that showed several mummies
Torino – In front of the National Museum of Cinema
During the Christmas break, I, Mu, Wenjing, Gao Xiang and Chen Zao visited Taormina and Palermo (Sicilia). Then continued visiting Rome, but we were separated since I joined Josef, an EMSE student. I, Josef and Jun Ming (a guy I didn’t know before who was interested in joining our trip) went to the midnight Christmas mass at the Vatican city and visited many famous spots in Rome.
Taormina – Posing at the old Greek theatre
Palermo – In front of the cathedral
Roma – Inside the famous Colosseum (Jun Ming, Josef, me)
Roma – Eyes-closed pose outside the Colosseum
Vatican – Posing in front of St. Peter’s basilica
I spent the new year’s eve in Trento with Indonesian friends. We went to piaza del Duomo to see fire crackers during the year-changing moments, then we watched a cartoon at Yudis‘ place until morning came.
Trento – Snowy new year….
On January 17th 2009, I and Ida visited Vicenza. Palladio’s architectures are indeed nice.
Vicenza….
Early January I, Mu, Sandeep, Jeff, Jennifer, Mike, Fatih, and an Italian girl went skiing somewhere around Val di Sole. A stupid thing happened. I, Mu and Sandeep went down hill with the wrong cable car
Val di Sole – Enjoy skiing….
On January 21st 2009, Yudis conducted his final Ph.D presentation at IRST.
Trento – Yudis’ Ph.D defense. Congratulations to him!
On May 25th 2009, I went to Trento from Aachen to fetch some left luggages. I visited Verona and visited some famous spots.
Verona – Self-taken picture inside the Arena
It’s a pity that I haven’t visited Pisa and Firenze. Next time then 
The story began when I came to Aachen from Trento and needed the internet connection around the campus. I tried to use the “eduroam” SSID, but since it didn’t work, I used the “mops” instead. To get the connection, I needed to use the Cisco VPN client. So it all went well, I could connect to the internet at the university. But then, last month, when I discussed my thesis thingy with my supervisor, I couldn’t get my laptop online. I tried the normal procedure for connecting to the VPN server but with no positive result 
as shown below.
Connected to the “mops” SSID
Couldn’t connect to the VPN server (previously it worked fine this way)
Getting a bit frustrated, I contacted the RZ helpdesk through email, and the operator said “mops” was not available anymore! (except for guest users) Goshhh…. So the only choice was to use the “eduroam” SSID. I tried following the instructions at RZ’s website with no luck (I tried installing all 3 certificates required). I went to the RZ helpdesk at the SuperC building, but they couldn’t support the Linux platform So I went to the center for computing and communication’s helpdesk, but they couldn’t support the Linux platform as well. So they routed me to the informatics building, the usual place for me to hang out (the computer pool room). And finally the guy showed me how to configure things appropriately on newer Linux distributions. He used the Ubuntu 9.04 Linux distribution, but this specific configuration should work for Ubuntu 8.10 as well. I tried it on my Fedora 10 box and it worked just fine. Surprisingly, the guy wasn’t a computer science student. So what’s the special configuration? It is without using the CA certificate!!!! Gosshhhh… Had I known this earlier, I wouldn’t have had to be routed around Aachen Of course I used the NetworkManager provided by the Fedora 10 distribution instead of using the old-school network service (the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ thingy). I will never use the traditional iwlist, iwconfig, and dhclient tools anymore unless in specific circumstances where I’m forced to use them
Using the nm-tool make sure that WPA2 or WPA is supported by the wireless interface
The correct NetworkManager configuration
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